Note:The following was not something I wrote, but found on the web several years ago. The original site is no longer online, so I’m including it here for preservation. I can’t speak to the accuracy of the information, but it seems very accurate based on my extensive GPS experience.

Well personally I don’t think so, but if you follow the GPS forums, you might come to this conclusion! Personally, I prefer simplicity… But regardless of your philosophy, our final example is the SevenFields dashboard, and it builds on everything you’ve already learned. Open the dashboard in Notepad++ and take a look… Continue–> Creating Custom Dashboards for your Nuvi Page 3

Now we’ll build on what you’ve already learned with a more complete dashboard example. Open the TwoFields_800x480.dshb file in Notepad++. You’ll see that this file has the id “two”. The first new thing you’ll notice is the DashboardColors section. These define the font colors we’ll be using in the data fields. The red, green and blue values correspond to the RGB values you’ll see in the Photoshop color picker. Continue–> Creating Custom Dashboards for your Nuvi Page 2

In 2012 Garmin added a new feature to the Nuvi line called “dashboards” — small files containing images and code that change the appearance of the main map screen. In the past, the Nuvi was criticized for its lack of user customization features, and the 2012 models sought to address this complaint with the additioin of dashboards and a couple other new features. But Garmin giveth and Garmin taketh away… the dashboard feature was removed from the 2013 Nuvi models. I believe the full list of dashboard-compatible devices would be: Continue–> Creating Custom Dashboards for your Nuvi

Sometimes, we are notified of errors in our map providers’ data that could present safety concerns. Because your safety is important to us, we have listed all known map errors below.

They certainly don’t expect people to review the list before going out on a drive, so the only angle here must be PR. When the monthly “GPS made me do it” articles come out in the media they can point to this page in response.

I find reporting on most financial results fairly annoying– people have become good at spinning any piece of data however they would like. So I decided to take a different “look” at TomTom’s Q1 2012 results. I built a little word cloud.

I threw out common words you would expect to find in financial results like amounted, business, compared, mainly, and previous. Interpret as you will. What I see is a company becoming more focused in the automotive division and their traffic service and focusing less on PNDs. Also notable was the nearly absent discussion of the smartphone app market.

When the newest version of the TomTom app for iPhone came out recently I noticed some of the items in the navigation menu had been rearranged. The menu order for the ‘Navigate To…’ menu used to look like this: